Off-Centre: Queer Contemporary Art in the Prairies

Phomohobes, "Sierra Ascendants," 2019

hand-cut collage. Photo: courtesy of the artists.

Central Gallery & Sherwood Gallery

Off-Centre: Queer Contemporary Art in the Prairies

Cindy Baker, Daniel Barrow, Rosalie Favell, Nik Forrest, Kablusiak, Zachari Logan, Daniel Cardinal McCartney, melannie monoceros, Megan Morman, Lasha Mowchun, Sheri Nault, Phomohobes, and Adrian Stimson

Curated by B. Fornwald, Curator, Moving Image and Performance, Dunlop Art Gallery and RPL Film Theatre & Gary Varro, Executive and Artistic Director, Queer City Cinema.

Sherwood Gallery: JUNE 22 to SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Central Gallery and Mediatheque: JULY 12 to SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Artist talk and opening reception: FRIDAY, JULY 12, 6:00 pm, RPL FILM THEATRE

This exhibition aims to destabilize urban/rural and centre/margin binaries by presenting engaging and politically relevant work by queer artists from and/or currently living in the Canadian Prairies. The exhibition addresses gender, sexuality and regionalism through an intersectional lens, and investigates the possibility of queering the “Prairie Gothic” aesthetic by presenting fantastical, playful, imaginary, and surreal representations of the human form.